Bachir Sid Azara

Bachir Sid Azara is an Algerian Greco-Roman wrestler. At the African Wrestling Championships he won a total of nine medals: six gold medals and three silver medals. He is also a gold medalist at the 2019 African Games, the 2022 Mediterranean Games and the 2023 African Games.

Career

He represented Algeria at the 2019 African Games held in Rabat, Morocco and he won the gold medal in the men's 87kg event. In 2015, he also competed at the African Games and he won the silver medal in the men's 80kg event at the time.
In 2020, he competed in the men's 87 kg event at the Individual Wrestling World Cup held in Belgrade, Serbia. He qualified at the 2021 African & Oceania Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament to represent Algeria at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. He competed in the 87kg event. He won his first match against Peng Fei of China and then lost against eventual gold medalist Zhan Beleniuk of Ukraine. In the repechage he was then eliminated by eventual bronze medalist Zurab Datunashvili of Serbia.
He won the gold medal in his event at the 2022 African Wrestling Championships held in El Jadida, Morocco. He won the gold medal in the 87kg event at the 2022 Mediterranean Games held in Oran, Algeria. In the final, he defeated Mirco Minguzzi of Italy. He competed in the 87kg event at the 2022 World Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia.
He won one of the bronze medals in the 87kg event at the 2023 Dan Kolov & Nikola Petrov Tournament held in Sofia, Bulgaria.
He competed in the 87kg event at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.

Achievements

Year	Tournament	Location	Result	Event
2015	African Games	Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo	2nd	Greco-Roman 80 kg
2017	Islamic Solidarity Games	Baku, Azerbaijan	3rd	Greco-Roman 80 kg
2018	Mediterranean Games	Tarragona, Spain	2nd	Greco-Roman 87 kg
2019	African Games	Rabat, Morocco	1st	Greco-Roman 87 kg
2022	African Wrestling Championships	El Jadida, Morocco	1st	Greco-Roman 87 kg
2022	Mediterranean Games	Oran, Algeria	1st	Greco-Roman 87kg
2023	African Wrestling Championships	Hammamet, Tunisia	1st	Greco-Roman 87kg
2024	African Games	Accra, Ghana	1st	Greco-Roman 87kg